Dumbass Saying: “You Can Lead A Horse To Water But You Can’t Make Him Drink”

You can lead a horse to Hydrochloric Acid,
but you can't make it drink!

There’s a saying that “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink” which basically means you can’t force stubborn people to do things even if it’s for their own good. This saying is flawed though because you CAN make a horse drink after you lead it to water. All you have to do is wait for it to get thirsty. A horse isn’t going to stand there dying of thirst when there’s water right in front of it. Most non-special needs horses will go ahead and drink up after awhile.

The solution to this saying is patience. If you’re trying to teach someone and they’re being stubborn, just be patient with them. Even if you led a vegan to a pot roast you could make her eat eventually. You’d just have to wait until the vegan was about to die of starvation and there’s a good chance she would cave in and finally eat. If you led a nudist to a clothing store they’d eventually put something on once winter rolled around. It’s all about patience.

Dumbass Sayings: “No Man Is An Island”

To clarify: this is not a man.

Okay, so no man is an island. So what is a man then? A state? A county? Is a man even his own country as long as it’s landlocked? The point that everyone eventually needs help from others is valid, but the metaphor is very odd. So if you need help from other people you should be pressed up against them 24 hours a day? No, people need some water between them. Just because you’re an island doesn’t mean you’re completely apart from the rest of the world. Hawaii is an island and yet it’s still a state. This saying might have been more applicable and understandable before planes existed, but now we can travel and transport goods and supplies quite easily from island to mainland. Thanks to technology and the internet, a person can subsist almost entirely without any human contact. As time goes on this saying becomes less and less relevant. A man CAN be an island. Fortunately we’re not at a point yet where an island can be a man. That’s going to be pretty weird, but with doctors making advancements in gender alteration surgeries who knows. It is a strange new world.